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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

4 AN Amsterdam company controls
4,500, 900 acres in New Mexico, the
Marquis of Tweedsdale holds l, $50 900.
and at least 20, TAT acres are held in fee
by several other aliens whose only in
terest in America is in what they can
skin out of it. Thanks to the last
Congress, the business of establishing
in this country the landlord and ten
ant system, which has so long oppress-
ed Ireland, has ceme to all end. Syn
dicates and aliens can ne longer absorb
the West as whole. A part of the
provisions of this wholesome law In as
follows:
No corporation other than those or.
ganised for the construction or opera.
tien of railways. canals or turnpikes,
shall acquire, hold or own more than
5000 acres of land in any of the Ter
ritories of the United States; and no
railroad, canal or turnpike corporation
shall hereafter acquire, hold or own
lands in any Territory other than as
may be necessary for the proper ope.
ration of its railroad, canal or turn
pide, except such lands as may have
been granted to it by act of Congress
but the prohibition of this section shall
not affect the title of any lands now
lawfully held by any such corporation.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

In 1s41 the number of persons en-
gagged in agriculture in Ireland was
1,s44, 600. By 1886, the number had
fallen to 9s6 900, loss of 858, 900. That
the rural population did not seek 9th.
or employment, is shown by the fact
that the number employed in building
and manufacturing also diminished in
the same time by $4,000. Bad gov
eminent stimulated an immigration
that caused a decrease in population
IA shown. In no other way can we
account fer the only instance of fall
ing off in the population of country
in this century in all civilised coun.
tries. Men do not leave their native
land for good as long rs life is tolera.
BILE there. That SO many Irishmen
have left their island in the last gen.
GRAFTON, il the most powerful indict-
ment that can be drawn against the
Tory government of England.-Cleve-
land Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

GOVERNOR HILL. of New York, re.
Gently made a speech in Brooklyn,
which is highly approved by the con-
serVative republican papers. as we'll As
by democrats. We give below all ex-
tract aud every word the governor
says is true. No terser or clearer sum.
mary of the benefits received by the
country from the change in admins.
tration could be made.
In few days more two years of
the administration of President Cleve.
hand will have expired. 1t must be
conceded on every hand that the
country has had the benefit of an hon
est and economical administration of
the government. The integrity aud
sincerity of the President have never
been questioned by his most bitter op
IoGents. The laws have been faithfully
executed the revenues have been col
lected with increased 1idelity and
diligence; the expenses of the govern
ment have been reduced our foreign
affairs have been conducted with con-
servatism and dignity; our finances
are in prosperous condition; the
liberties of the colored people have not
been jeopordized, but protected; free
trade has not ruined the country: the
confederate debt has not been assumed
nor the national debt repudiated-all
of which were predicted by our adver-
saries. The business interests of the
country seem to be fairly satisfied the
hard times are slowly bat surely pass.
ing away; sectional animosities are fast
disappearing the New South" of
which the eloquent GRADY recently
spoke SO grandly. is booming with
activity and enterprise, and our great
metropolis is reaping the benefit of an
increased and increasing southern
trade-in brief, the country has no
reason to regret the advent of the DEM
ocratic party into power, and it cannot
be denied that its administration of
public affairs has been highly credita.
BILE. greatly advancing the prosperity
and welfare of the whole people,"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07
Farmers and the Tariff,
We clip the following facts for farm

We clip the following facts for farm
ers from an exchange:
For twenty five years the protection
ISIS hsve Kept you down under high
tariff. They prate about home mar
ket and diversIfying interests to help
the farmer. What are the facts
Does your next door neighhor pay
you any more for wheat in the home
market than the shipper from Liver
pool? Does the manufacturer pay you
any more than The grain dealer?
The farmers are moi protected. They
pay war taxes Oh every thing they buy
and they get no more for what they
stii.
More than half of the workers of
this country are farmers and farm la
borcrs. The farmer is the strong horse
who has to bear the burden of taxes
while the wool is pulled down over his
eyes,
You can get for your wheat the price
at Liverpool, less the price Of getting
il there the enormous duty on steel
rails ard iron has increased by untold
millions the cost of the railways tha.
carry 1t, aud so increased your freigh:
and lowered your profits.
Every hoe, and plow, and tin pau,
and stove costs YOU more because OF
the tariff taxes. Your houses cost you
more. Your clothes cost you moIe.
WHAT Do YOU GET FOR 1T ALL?
The duty on wool, do you say
Wen, only S7O, ,0tt6, 900 worth of wool
! tprice paid faimers) is grown in this
country, to $500, ,000. 900 of corn, $500 :
90, ,0uO of wheat. $3.50, 200. 600 of hay,
$3.50, ,000, 900 of hay; S251, 900 ,O0O of cot.
! ton, Sl0O, 900, 900 OF hens eggs. Not 2
thirtieth of our farm products Is wool.
| 1t is haru to tax thirty men for one.
| But the wool tariff hurts the WOO
growers. Why? Because the wooleI
manufacturers have to buy imported
wool to mix with domestic woods, anC
the duty makes The prices SO high a
tn prevent their paying good price
for home grown wool.
Thus the farmer pays more for hi
blanket and gets less for his wool
h, gland sold TO foreign counties il
1883 $l15, 200, 900 worth WOODEN goods
| where we sold under one million. Tn
price of wool aud of all farm product
agersged higher under free trade thai
III the protection period.
The tariff affects none of the farm
ers' products in favor of the fSrmeI
The tariff on wheat, etc., is entirely
sham, because we export grain and Il
not import it.
If we were really TO shut Ourselvc
up to the home market, the glut {
produce would ruin our farmers. TIL
more freely Europe buys, the better O
are the American farmers.
Give our WOrkingmen work all th
year round, by help of free raw mats
rial, aud they will have more none
to spend ut home.
THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS
Protection does not protect. Til
farmer needs free trade as his true pr1
lection.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07
Wonderful Cures.

w. D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and
Retail Druggists, of Rome, Ga, say ::
We have been selling DIR. King'sNew
Discovery. Electric Bitters and Buck
lens Arnica Salve for two years Have
never handled remedies that sell as
well, or give such universal satisfac-
full cures effected by these remedies in
this city. Several cases of pronounced
Consumption have been entirely cured
by the use of few bottles of DR.. Kings
New Discovery, taken i'll connection
with Electric Bitters. We guarantee
them always. Sold by G. P. Reed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07
ReneWs Her Youth

Mrs Phoebe Chesley. Peterson, Clay
Co. Iowa, tells the following remarka-
bic story, the truth of which is vouch-
ed for by the residents of the town ::
" am 13 years old, have been troub-
led with kidney complaint and lame
ness for many years could not dress
myself without help. Now I am free
from all pain and soreness, and am
able to do all my own housework. I
owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for
having renewed my youth, and re-
moved completely all disease and pain.
Try bottle, only so c., at Reeds
drug store.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07
The Press T0r $3.50 q Year
GdVd2sCe.

The oldest member of the Inter.
State Commission is Judge Cooley, of
Michigan, who is GO, and the young
est is Aldace F. Walker, of Vermont,
who is 46.
TIE late italian earthquake is be-
lieved to have damaged real estate
alone to the extent of $40. 900 900. And
$1,000. 900 in Italy is equal to $40, 900,
coo or more here in such matters.
THE Act to amend the Act to pro
hibit the importation aud immigra.i,u
Of foreigners anu aliens under contract
or agreement to perform labor in the
United States, went into effect on the
23d ult.
WILLIAM J. HAYNES, of st. l. uis,
who will be 100 years old if he lives
until December next, was on the staff
of Gen. Jackson at the battle of New
Orleans. was engineer Of the first
steamboat that arrived at ST. Louis
from the South, and ran the first 10
COAOtlNC iSIb- OL. 1IOulS lOI tue
West.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD, OF
California, says of his projected Uni.
versity, that the buildings will be
grouped in quadrangle, will be con-
structed of California sandstone, and
will be Moorish in design, Werk up.
on seven of the buildings will be be
gun this summer.
The Secretary of the Nebrasks
Boald of Agriculture makes a very
favorable report of the financial con-
ditiou of the farmers of that State
He estimates that the value of rura
indebtedness has been reduced one
half in ten years. The rate of inter
est is 6 per cent, and by contract may
be rs high as 10 per cent. The pro
portion of farms mortgaged is quit,
small. Farmers have some towl
property and personal property inter
ests, both rural and urban.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

ONE of the most radical and far.
reaching acts ever passed by an Ohio
Legislature, was House bill No, 81,
now q part of the revised statutes.
The purpose of the law appears to be
to put women upon an exact equality
with men in the matter of property,
and that purpose appears clearly pro-
vided for in the statute. The Column.
bus Dispatch summarizes the law as
follows:
/. Hereafter a married woman may
contract generally, mortgage, lease or
convey her property to the same ex-
tent and in the same manner as mar
ried man may his property.
2. The husband will have the same
interest in the property of the wife
which the wife formerly had, and
which she will continue to have in the
property of her husband.
8. Neither the husband nor the
wife, as such, will be liable for the
contracts or tOrts of the other.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

English SPAWN Liniment removes
all Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps
and B!emishes from horses, Blood
SPAWN, Curbs. Splints, Sweeney, Sti-
fies, Sprains, Sore and Swollen throat,
Coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one
bottle. Warranted. Sold by Bedding
Il Gibbons, Druggists, Ravenns, o.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

I6e nominees Tor school Board and w ater-
works Trustee. were elected without opposition
f. L. Richardson and l.. r. Wait to the first. and
d. c. Goodman the last named office.
In Kent, where the issue was be-
tween the Republicans and the Citi-
zens' ticket, the latter bein. endorsed
by the Democratic caucus, and elected
the three Councilmeu. The k+ publ
can township ticket was elected
Rootstown gave IA Democratic ma
jority.
Randolph Democratic 139, Republi-
can l:9.
In Streetsboro the Democrats have
Is majority.
Mantua elects the entire Democratic
ticket, by a small majority.
In Sufiield the Republicans elected
the clerk, and the Democrats the re-
mainder of the ticket.
In Edinburg the entire Republican
ticket was elected.
Aurora gave the Democratic ticket
except for treasurer, a small majority.
Atwater went Republican.
A light vote is reported from all sec.
tiOns
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

WHAT shall be done with the sur.
surplus? There is nothing that can
be done except to hoard it To pay out
in the purchase oi irredeemable bonds
at premium that would amount to
the prepay ment to bondholders of four
years unearned interest in addition
10 the discount value of the money.
1t will be six or seven months from
the lst of July be,ore Congress can do
anything in regular session to prevent
this accumulation of money at the
rate of $lO,OO0,000 a month, and it
could then only relieve the contraction
already effected by spending the sur
plus. The collection of another $780,
0OO, 600 of supeIfiuous revenue ought
to be prevented, though it would take
an extra session of Congress to do 1t.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

INTELLIGENT MsXicans expect that
under the new and reduced tariff the
foreign trade of their country will ia.
crease largely. Indeed. they expect
that importatiops will increase SO
largely that the revenue derived from
them will be larger than it now is
The foreign trade of the country has
not hitherto been very extensive. In
1884 the total value of imports and
exports was about $92, 2,o0e, 900, and
about $22, 600, 900 of this trade, or not
quite one-fourth of the whole, was
with the United States. Our trade
with Mexico has been growing of late,
In 1850 we sold $500, 900 worth of
goods to the Mexicans. and bought
from them 81, 200, 900 worth In 1883
our sales to them had increased to
SIC, SOC, 900 and our purchases from
to SO ,OO0, 600 In 1884 our sales to them
decreased about $500, 900, but it lie
understood that this was in anticipa-
tion of the early ratification of the
reciprocity treaty. Under the new
tariff, which goes much further than
the treaty On the Mexican side, we
may expect to see this trade grow
much more rapidly,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

THE Senate of the Missouri legisla
ture has passed bill which aims a
blow at the dignity of those who in
terfere with laboring men. This bill
makes it a felony for any one, b5
threats or violence, to induce an EN-
ploye to quit work and the punish
ment provided is imprisonment in the
penItentiary from two to five years
For the otfense of using the same vio-
lent means to, prevent one from ac-
cepting employ ment, the punishment
is imprisonment in the county Jail
and fine of from 500 to 81 goo 1t
will be seen that such measure would
provide protection for two classes OF
people who now frequently need it,
and these are the union men who re
fuse TO go on a strike at the command
or dictation of committees or boards,
and the unemployed wofkingmen who
accept the positions abandoned by
strikers. It would seem that to pre-
vent an unemployed man from ac-
cepting q job is as grievoua sn offs nse
as TO compel ali employed man 10 quit
job; yet the bill in the Missouri
Legislature makes q distinction and
provides for q much severer punish
ment for the latter ACT Ex.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07
item.

Chinese Solving the Tramp Ques.
item.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25th.-The
steamer Belgic arrived today from
Chiaa and Japan. She brought news
of q dreadful tragedy at Hsi- Chib.
Chen, China, twenty miles northeast
of Hongebow. Over three hundred
tramps appeared at q village and great
lv irritsted the inhabitants. The vii
Layers inveigled the whole body into
temple, and during the night set fire
70 it. Only forty of the occupants of
the building escaped.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

AN exchange gives the estimated
wealth of the richest members of the
United States Senate as folloWs:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07
Teachers Examinations.

Teachers Examinations.
Examinations of Teachers will be held at the
High School building n RaVsnns, commencing
ST O'Clock A. Il. and closing ut O'Clock P. Il .
on he first SATURDAYS of each month, excep
February and March, IN which two months the
examinations will be held on the 6rst and third
Saturdays,
SPECIAL EoTI0E.-No certificate will be ante.
dated. By order of ths Board.
-TErr Hssk
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07

Forest City Bird Store.
established 1872. Sing
ing Birds. Talking Par
rOts, Bird Cages, Pure
Seed, Song Restorer.
Insect Cure. Fishing
- Tackle, Bird Books.
M Poultry Supplies, Gold
Fish, Dogs x their Med
icines. Ferrets, Birds Eyes. ). III. WILSON,
349 Superior ST., Cleveland, Ohio.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-04-07
LOOK AT THESE PRICES

Each. Doz
Apple TO feet. select 81 80 g. 90
10 nice treas Is $50
Pear 70 feet. extra select ~ 80 500
4lo5 - nice tiees . sS $50
fedch, 70 1eet o5st--.--..- -...-. IL l55
: 10 nice trees -.....- 1s
cherry. Sweet, to 1T, select 49, 3s SEQ
to il ui,e IS Z 80
sour, 20 IT. sei*ot - S5 zEo
2to4 # good 25 : 20
Plan to it. on plum rloi. 70 40
Plum. to 1t on plum rcCt. - 10 so
Plum 10 1t .od peach roofs ~ q Z 90
Plum. tO # Oh peach roots. 90 aO0
Plum, W ild Goose, on its own roots
ears. 10 teet .-------- 20 400
Ounce ami Al pTi OF Trees st low prices.
save yonT money by giving us your orders
befoie March no. AMI be snre of getting Trees
trGe TO name
Niagara Grape Vines. ] year. zoe each; two
year, 15c each Other varieties from &c to
81 80 each
nrnam. .ntai Trees and Shrubs, Garden Drills
and u!tivAt1Is.
Come aHd see us.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08

\ few weeks ago a report came
from Virginia that bloody fluX was
epidemic in Amherst, Roanoke Bed
ford and Botetourt counties. The
same day it was received, Chamber
lain & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, sent
a bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy to
each of the 40 post-offices in the four
counties with the request that it be
given to some family afflicted with
the disease. Since then they have
received several letters from there,
the following is copy of one of them:
Chestnut, AmerheSt Co., Va, Aug. Z.
'S7. Messrs. Chamberlain & Co., l
received the bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrh9a Remedy
sent me and it has been used with the
greatest success. l shall still endeavOr
to let such valuable remedy as yours
be known. Two children died with
bloody fiuX, almost in this immediate
vicinity, not long since, and had your
remedy been known then, it would
probably have saved their lives. Mess.
VIM. Strothes 81 Son, wholesale drug
gistS, at Lynchburg, are selling a
great deal of your remedy. Please
accept thanks for the bottle sent me,
and rest assured that l will use it
whenever needed. l am yours very
truly and gratefully, p. E. LAVENDER,
z. M. Sold by BARNES & NORTH
CRAFT
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08
Astonishing Success.

1t is the duty of every person who
has used BOschee's German Syrup to
let its wonderful qualities be known
to their friends in curing Consump-
ton, severe Coughs, Group, Asthma
Pneumonia, and in fact all throat and
lung diseases. No person can use it
with out immediate relief. Three
doses will relieve any case, and we
consider it the duty of all Druggists
to recommend it to the poor, dying
consumptive, at least to try one bottle,
as $4,000 dozen bottles were sold last
year, and no one case where it failed
was reported. Such medicine as the
German Syrup cannot be too widely
known. Ask your druggist about it.
Sample bdttles to try, sold at 10 cents.
Regular size IS cents. Sold by all
druggists and Dealers, in the United
States and Canada.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08

Shall it be cheap rum or cheap cloth
ing? The growth of the surplus will
compel the next Congress to reduce
taxation. The abolition of tax on
whiskey and tobacco is not the Demo-
cratic plan, though Randall, of Penn
sylvania, is one of its advocates, of the
necessity for reduction, there is now no
question. OF the means to that end.
choice may be made of the retention of
the internal tax and a reduction of the
tariff-a choice between cheap whiskey
and dear sugar, salt, glass, blankets,
clothing, and all articles of real necessity.
How will the delegation from Prohibit
ion Kansas vote on this question i?
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08
Another Republican Plan.

The leading Republican organ of
this city urges that the tariff on iron
and steel be increased to the prohib-
itory point, as means of cutting down
the surplus.
This is little the worst yet. There
are compensations in the plan of some
Republicans to reduce the duty on
sugar. There is at least the merit of
holiness in the suggestion of others
that the surplus be perpetuated-
spent. But seriously to propose to re-
lieve the people of the effects of Hnnec-
essary and unjust war taxes by increas-
ing the tax is the climax of effrontery.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08

The effect of increasing the duty on
iron and steel would simply be to
transfer the surplus from the peoples
treasury to the pockets of a monopoly.
With foreign products shut out alto
gether, a pool or Crust" would at
once fix the amount of the home out
put, the price which the people should
be compelled to pay, and the wages of
the helpless operatives. How this
would work, let the doings of the coal
barons teach.
Is it not about time that the Demo-
Gratis should agree upon a plan for
stopping the surplus by reducing taxes?
N. Y. World Independent.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08

Bill Nye has no notion of being a can
didate for the Presidency. He says :
mo one has mentioned the matter of
my candidacy for 1888, but to avoid
any surprise or disappointment on the
part of my friends, 1 desire to say now
that it will be impossible.
Many boys look forward, with much
pleasure, to the time when they will be
President of the United States, and be
thus, by their own unaided exertions.
the greatest official on earth, but it
never worried me much. 1 would
rather be the obscure clerk of Joint
School District, Number Eight, and
not feel bound to provide for three
million Office seekers, whose pantaloons
have two-inch fringe at the base.
In 1888 1 had the pleasure of looking
at a President through knot-hole in a
high board fence. During our inter-
view 1 was forcibly struck with the
look of pain on the face of the Chief
Magistrate. He did not say much, but
l could see that the burden of three or
four million ofice-holders, and three OF
four million more who were willing to
be ofice-holders, and forty or fifty mil
lion vocal or published criticisms each
day, were making big man sad. We
elevate man to great height here in
America and then we let him fall hard. -
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08

The platform of the Iowa Republi-
cans declares it to be the intention of
the Southern people ''to degrade the
negroes into a servile form of cheap
labor" but the same platform is as
dumb as an oyster about the Pennsyl-
vania coal miners, who receive about
half as much as Southern negroes
doing the same kind of work. Is it a
tenet of Republican faith that an op-
pressed laborer is entitled to relief only
when he wears black skin,an sis the
Caucasian played out?"-S. LOUIS Post
Dispatch.